Just a place to show off my crafty stuff and help keep me motivated. Once in a while my kids sneak in too.
My latest project is Bent Creek's Santa Train stocking for my son. I've really enjoyed the simplicity of this one, not to mention the huge stitches. 4 over 2 on 18ct! I wonder if I'll have it done and put together in time for Christmas.
This is my progress as of last night. It's gonna take forever to fill in all that red! I still need to go back up and stitch the railroad track above Santa's head. I didn't have the right color so had to skip over it. I'll take a better pic of the whole thing when I take it off the Q snaps to move it. 
I'll be taking a break from all that red today to start Post Stitches It's 5:00 Somewhere. This will be a Christmas present for my sis-in-law. So many shades of pink!!
Wine a bit by Post Stitches. I started this on Sunday night and finished it Tuesday night. A new world record for me! I really thought this would take longer and didn't have anything ready to start next. This will be a Christmas present for my mother-in-law and I'll be attempting to frame it myself.
I was going to start a stocking next but I don't really like the linen I was given for it. I have fabric for some pattens but no floss and floss for some but no fabric. Guess it's time to dig out a UFO!
This one is a freebie from here. I made it for DH to put on his desk at work. He loves his coffee. Stitched on blue 14ct aida
Before finishing
After
Another freebie but I have no clue where I found it, it's been saved on my computer for over a year. This one is for myself which doesn't happen too often! Stitched on the same blue aida.
And my current wip. I was asked to stitch this Irish blessing by someone who's mother recently passed away. Stitched on 25ct antique white lugana. I was planning on using 28ct but apparently I had a total brain fart while buying the fabric and didn't realize it until the next day. The lettering is 2 over 2. Underneath will be a celtic knot (freebie from Ink Circles) stitched 1 over 1.
The wedding square is slowly getting done. Just a couple more blue swirls to go then the rest of the border and lettering. I've really enjoyed working on this and will be sad to see it go. I hope I get to see a picture of the whole quilt put together eventually.
I crocheted a nintendo ds cozy for a swap partner. After searching all over for a pattern I finally made up my own. It's pretty quick and easy so I'm sure I'll make more! I've been trying to think of a way to add a pocket for games too.
Chunky pages coming soon!
I finally managed to get a bit of crafting done. My little kidlets aren't making it easy lately. I'm sure it's not going to get any easier since Noah figured out how to crawl yesterday!
Oh, before I forget for the millionth time. Thank you Val(yarnigras) for the apron and bookmark!!!! I love them and will try to get pics soon of the apron in action. P.S. I've been behind on my blog reading lately so I'll probably be sending a bunch of comments your way when I play catch up.
I signed up for a Recipe chunky book swap and here is what I came up with. I made the pages pretty big, 6 inch square, so I could fit the recipes on easily. I couldn't find as many cooking embellishments as I would have liked. Well, today I saw a whole bunch that would have been perfect, never fails.
I've also been stitching along on the wedding square (after the kids go to bed). It needs to be in the mail by the end of July so hopefully I can keep up the pace. The light blue is half stitches which helps a ton. I can't wait to see how it looks without the waste canvas!
Happy Mother's Day to all the mommy's out there.
Here's is what my kids made me with just a little help from daddy. I think I will attach some ribbon to them and hang them on the wall.
I keep buying more and more stuff and then I feel guilty because I never seem to get anything done. I need to get more organized...and a babysitter would be nice. Paige is heading into the terrible twos and getting a lot of practice in with the tantrums (even as I type this she's throwing a huge fit because I had the nerve to try to change her clothes!) Noah is pretty happy most the time but sometimes he wants to be held all day which makes it difficult to do anything, even with the sling.
Anyways, a friend has twisted my arm...I mean convinced me to start an Etsy shop. We'll see how long that takes for that to happen. I already set up the account, now I just need to make something to sell....someday.
To show that I am actually doing something. Here is a cross stitch I started last week. It's for the husband's cousin who is getting married this fall. The cousin's fiance's family has mailed everybody a 12 inch square of fabric to decorate. The squares will be made into a quilt that will hang over the couple when they say their vows. I decided to use the pattern from this kit and changed the colors to the wedding colors. This is my first time using waste canvas so I hope it works out. Stitching on a white grid over white fabric with light gray floss is not easy!!!
Here is the beginnings of a pair of wool shorts I'm making for a friend on LJ. She has recently entered the world of cloth diapering and having entirely way too much fun with it!
And just because I love to torture myself I started a Crochet-along in a crochet group on Swap-bot. The theme is Circle in a Square and each week I post a new square. My goal is to make four of each square. Right now we're on the second square. The four on the right are from the first week. They're all the same size, the camera was at an angle. The other square is from this weeks pattern. It came out a little bigger than the others so I need to adjust the last round a bit.
This will be a blanket for Paige. I really wanted to try satin binding on this one but it cost a bit more than I thought so I just got the usual kind. I thought the bunny looked like she was ready to go to bed so I picked out the blue star fabric for the back.
Gotta love sales!! More future blankets, possibly for the Etsy shop. These have binding too, I forgot to add them in the pic.
And finally, the husband has a blanket/tapestry of dogs playing poker so when I saw this kit in the sale bin I had to get it.
I saw this fishing flannel at Joann Fabrics and just had to have it for blanket for Noah. I thought the iron on would be perfect since my dad can't wait for Noah to be his fishing buddy. I later went back and bought some binding for it. It's the first time I've put binding on a blanket and I'm glad I did, it looks so much better that way! The fabric on the right was picked out by my husband. He wants me to make him a blanket for the couch. I was going to make it like Noah's blanket but then I decided to be adventurous and cut it all up into 6 1/2 inch squares to make it quilt-like. I've been slowly getting all those squares stitched back together. My machine is being very tempermental lately and doesn't seem to want me to make this blanket! But I will get it done! It'll be far from perfect but I know better to expect that and I'm sure hubby will love it anyways.
I had a 50% off coupon so how could I possibly resist?!?
I haven't gotten a chance to play yet. I plan on challenging the hubby tonight!
Thanks to Yarni Gras for the inspiration!! Since I don't have a lot of table space to work on I thought this apron with pockets would be perfect for holding scissors and glue and other random things. I didn't think I had any fabric to work with but then I found some in a bag of scraps that were given to me quite a while ago.
This is the first time I didn't have a pattern or a tutorial to follow so I'm sure I did something wrong but I think it turned out great! ...other than it being a bit too wide since I just guessed instead of measuring. Shhh don't tell!
I think I'll have to make a mini version.
I kept my sewing machine busy this weekend and finally made a couple things not for swaps. On Saturday I used this tutorial to make Paige a new dress. She was sleeping by the time I got it put together so while I was sewing I was praying it would fit. Amazingly (and thankfully!)it fits her just right! I wasn't too sure about the red ric rac at first. I wanted ruffles but the ric rac was the only thing I could find that was the right color. I think it turned out great! The shirt was my dad's. He gave some shirts he didn't want anymore to my husband but they were too big for him. I hoping this weekend will be warm enough for Paige to wear it to Nana and Papa's house.
I wonder if Dad will recognize his old shirt?
My model wasn't in a modeling mood.
I also bought more of that kitcheny fabric and on Sunday I whipped up some much needed new kitchen curtains! 
And last night I made a bag using another tutorial on craftster but my camera battery is dead so I'll have to show that off next time. Possibly with another bag I'm thinking about making.
